A dandelion in a book from 659Sourced
Even a roadside flower
has an ancient paper trail.
The leaves of Taraxacum mongolicum, a dandelion species, were documented in the Chinese materia medica Xinxiu Bencao in AD 659. People have been naming and recording uses for familiar plants for well over a millennium.
There is old history
at ground level.
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